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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Helen doing when Anne tapped her forehead and spelled think?

2. What season is it when Helen and her family travel for their vacation?

3. Why did Sullivan take Helen outside?

4. In what year did Anne Sullivan come to teach Helen?

5. What did Helen ask Anne about the ocean?

Short Essay Questions

1. In her final chapter, who does Helen have unkind words for?

2. What allowed Helen to forget all of the controversy about her plagiarism?

3. How did Helen feel about many of her professors' methods for teaching the great works of literature?

4. How did Helen's friends react to her desire to learn to speak and why did they react this way?

5. How did Helen imitate her father?

6. How did Helen feel about Anne's attempts to teach her the manual alphabet?

7. What happened to Helen, Mildred and Miss Sullivan as they tried to find their way home when they were lost in the woods?

8. How did Helen take her preliminary exams to enter Radcliffe College?

9. What happened to Helen the first time she was in the ocean?

10. Why did Helen become restless and frustrated?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What would you consider to be the main theme of this novel? Why do you think this is the theme? In what ways does this theme extend beyond the novel?

Essay Topic 2

How did Helen learn to systematically work through something that would not offer her immediate gratification? What in her young life prepared her her for this type of work?

Essay Topic 3

In looking at Helen's experience at Gilman's school the second year, what aspects do you think led to the conflict? Which events do you think were Helen's doing? Which do you think were the schools? Do you think it was justified to remove her from the school? Why or why not?

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